My old friend Dean Blackketter just told me about Jive, which looks like it’s an architecture for building internet-enabled software that will be able to run on devices like the Squeezebox, and, presumably, future hardware from Logitech, the new owners of Slim Devices, the makers of said Squeezebox, hence employers of said friend.
The technology stack [...]

Via John Biehler: I’d read this story in the New Yorker, but Malcolm Gladwell talks as well as he writes. Psychophysics is so much fun, it’s too bad the field’s name really reeks of the 1910’s.